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1 online resource (274 pages) |
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Cultural expressions of World War II : interwar preludes, responses, memory |
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Cultural expressions of World War II.
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| Contents |
On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust |
| Summary |
Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish--gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of the literature of these writers, this bold new work examines those structures, ironies, disjunctions, and tensions that produce a literature lamenting loss for a generation removed spatially and temporally from the extended trauma of the Holocaust. Aarons and Berger address evolving notions of "postmemory"; the intergenerational transmission of trauma; inherited memory; the psychological tensions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity; tropes of memory and the personalized narrative voice; generational dislocation and anxiety; the recurrent antagonisms of assimilation and alienation; the imaginative reconstruction of the past; and the future of Holocaust memory and representation |
| Analysis |
literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Literature, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Memory in literature.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
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Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
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Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature, Modern.
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Memory in literature.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berger, Alan L., 1939- author.
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| ISBN |
9780810134119 |
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081013411X |
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